Abstract: The collection consists of prints and drawings,
handbills, photographs, postcards, printed materials (including books, periodicals,
bibliographies, journal articles, newspaper clippings, event programs, conference
agenda and reports, manuscripts, telegrams, letters, press kits and releases,
corporate overviews, investment prospectuses, sales brochures, technical
specification sheets, typescript histories, and guides), maps, sheet music, sound
recordings, ephemera, and memorabilia collected by Dr. John F. B. Carruthers and
documenting the history of aviation, with particular emphasis on the period from
1783 to the late 1950s. The prints and drawings document in particular the
development of French and British ballooning from 1783 to 1785, British ballooning
in the 19th century, and historic U.S. civil and military aircraft, including
balloons, dirigibles, and fixed-wing airplanes, 1903 to circa 1950. Photographic,
printed, and other materials document early air meets and historic flights,
including the original records of Cecil Allen and Donald Moyle's 1931 transpacific
flight. The materials also document pioneer aviators, including Glenn Curtiss,
Amelia Earhart, Arch Hoxey, A. Roy Knabenshue, and Clyde Pangborn. Materials on the
Wright brothers include a toy butterfly purported to have inspired their interest in
flight, and a piece of the 1903 Kitty Hawk hangar; materials on Charles A. Lindbergh
include two metal pieces from the "Spirit of St. Louis" and sound recordings of his
1927 visit to Washington, DC, upon his return from Paris. The collection also
contains extensive photographic and printed materials on individual aircraft,
aircraft manufacturers, and airlines, including historic 19th-century aircraft and,
in particular, aircraft of U.S., British, French, and German manufacture between
1930 and 1960. The collection includes a large number of draft maps and plans of
airports and airfields, circa 1924-1931, prepared by the Aeronautics Branch of the
U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as sheet music of songs on aeronautical themes,
1876-1952.

Creator:
Carruthers, John
Franklin Bruce, 1889-1960

Access

The collection is open to researchers when Special Collections is open, and at other
times by appointment. There are no access restrictions.

Publication Rights

Researchers wishing to publish material must obtain permission in writing from
Special Collections as the physical owner of the material. Note that permission to
publish does not constitute copyright clearance. Special Collections can grant
copyright clearance only for that material for which we hold copyright. It is the
responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright clearance for all other
material from the copyright holder(s).

Gift to Claremont Men's College (now Claremont McKenna College) from the collector,
the Rev. John Franklin Bruce Carruthers, 1950.

Separated Materials

A scrapbook of early aeronautica, 1783-1840, collected by William Upcott (1779-1845),
formerly in the possession of Robert Hollond, was given by Carruthers' widow to the
Smithsonian Institution, at a ceremony attended by some of the greatest aviators in
the world, many of whom added their signatures to the verso of the engraved plate in
the beginning of the volume. The volume was rebound as 3 in 1994-1995, and is now
housed at the National Air and Space Museum Archives, Special Collections, TL620.A1
U65. See Janice Stagnitto Ellis, "Aloft in a Balloon: Treatment of a Scrapbook of
Early Aeronautica Collected by William Upcott, 1783-1840," American Institute for
Conservation, Book and Paper Group, Annual, vol. 16 (1997),
http://cool.conservation-us.org/coolaic/sg/bpg/annual/v16/bp16-02.html .

Processing Information

Collection processed by Michael Palmer, June 2004-July 2006.

Biographical and Historical Notes

Biography of John Franklin Bruce Carruthers

John Franklin Bruce Carruthers was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, on August 31, 1889,
the son of James B. and Anna (Wood) Carruthers. He graduated A.B. from Princeton in
1912. From 1912 to 1914, he served as assistant to the minister of the First
Presbyterian Church in Baltimore. In 1917, he proceeded A.M. at Princeton, and
graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary. From 1917 to 1918 he served as
assistant to the minister of the Church of the Covenant (now the National
Presbyterian Church) in Washington, DC. He was ordained to the ministry of the
Presbyterian church in 1918. During World War I he served as chaplain of the U.S.S.
Oklahoma, and in 1919 became head chaplain for morale, education and recreation, 6th
Division, Bureau of the Navy. In 1919, he married Mabel Grandin, by whom he had one
son and three daughters. From 1919 to 1924 Carruthers was chaplain, Manson
professor, and head of the Bible department of Lafayette College, from whom he
received the D.D. in his final year. In 1924, the family moved to California,
settling the following year in Pasadena, where Carruthers and his wife became active
in civic affairs. From 1924 to 1926, Carruthers served as professor of religious
education and from 1926 to 1928 as lecturer in archaeology at Occidental College.
Carruthers also served as lecturer in archaeology on the University of California
extension faculty, 1927-1928. From 1930 to 1935, Carruthers was research assistant
to Rufus von KleinSmid, president of the University of Southern California (USC) and
chancellor of the Los Angeles University of International Relations (forerunner of
the USC department of international relations), and as secretary of the USC
Institute of Arts and Sciences. During World War II, Carruthers was chaplain of the
First Aero Squadron, Camp Hopkins, Bainbridge Island, Washington, and president of
the Pacific Coast Japanese Problem League. In 1944, he ran unsuccessfully in the
Democratic Party primary for the 47th assembly district in the California state
legislature. In 1950, Carruthers and his wife deeded his collection of aviation
books and materials, which constituted the library of the Institute of Aeronautical
History, to Claremont Men's (now Claremont McKenna) College, and in 1952 the
president of the college, George C. S. Benson, appointed him to the honorary
position of Director of Research, Library of Aeronautical History. He died at his
home in Pasadena on January 13, 1960.

Carruthers' independent means enabled him to pursue a wide variety of interests. In
1926 and 1930 he traveled on behalf of Near East Relief (now the Near East
Foundation), investigating post-war conditions in Russia, Syria, Greece, Iraq,
Lebanon, and Turkey. He was founder or co-founder of several organizations,
including the American Society for Persian Art and Archaeology, the Interstate
Collegiate School of Religious Education and Social Service, Los Angeles, the Aero
Educational Research Organization (later Institute of Aeronautical History) in 1927,
Town Hall of Southern California in 1935, the United Nationals Chaplains League in
1945, and the Military Order of Chaplains of the United Nations in 1946. He also
served as president of the Board of Trustees of the American School for Girls in
Damascus, chairman of the National Small Business Research Bureau of the American
Religious Radio Association, president of the Southern California Council on
Religious Education, trustee of the Institute of Family Relations and of the
American College in Teheran, and member of the Board of Overseers of the California
College of China.

The Institute of Aeronautical History

According to newspaper accounts of December 1933, Carruthers began seriously
collecting aeronautica some five years previously. More or less simultaneously, in
1927, he created the Aero Educational Research Organization, whose purpose,
according to a 1952 flyer, was "to advance the cause of Aeronautical Progress, by
means of Historical and Educational Administrative Research, primarily in the field
of The Humanities". No records of the organization have been identified, and what
little is known of it is derived from contemporary newspaper accounts, letterheads,
and the program for the memorial service held to honor Charles E. Taylor at the
Portal of the Folded Wings, Valhalla Memorial Park, Burbank, in 1956. The
organization was incorporated in February 1933. At some point between 1937 and 1949,
its name was changed to the Institute of Aeronautical History. Carruthers appears to
have been its only chairman, and its first four presidents were Roy Knabenshue,
Commander George Noville, Percival G. B. Morriss, and Albert A. Merrill; Walter
Brookins also served as president. In 1933, the poet Edwin Markham accepted an
invitation to be the organization's poet laureate.

Over time, the Institute became the nexus of a web of organizations that in 1956
consisted of the following:

The Institute of Aeronautical History, Inc., James Gillette, executive
vice president. The Institute consisted of two separate entities:

the Library, comprising Carruthers' collection, was originally
promised to the University of Southern California (newspaper
accounts of December 1933 state variously that Carruthers'
collection had been "acquired" by, or was "in the possession" of,
the University), but was donated by him in 1950 to Claremont Men's
(now Claremont McKenna) College, and from 1953 housed in the Honnold
Library.

the Center of Aeronautical Documentation, Prints, Archives, Rare
Clippings, Photographs and Serials, also known as the Gillette
Museum Center of International Aeronautical Documentation, was in
1956 housed in Suite 1, Union Savings Bank Building, 20 North
Raymond, Pasadena. The exact nature of its collections is at present
unknown, but some materials may constitute part or all of the James
N. Gillette Aviation Collection (Photographic Collection P-140),
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum
of the County of Los Angeles.

The Alberto Santos-Dumont Aeronautical Foundation, Inc., incorporated on
December 5, 1945, to "sponsor the panorama of aviation". Letterhead from
approximately 1950 gives its address as a Post Office box in Palm Desert,
with a Hollywood Office at 1807 North Las Palmas, Hollywood. Its officers in
1951 were Clifford W. Henderson, chairman; Lloyd G. Davies, president; James
N. Gillette, managing director; F. S. "Luke" Luqueer, first vice president;
Murphy McHenry, executive vice president; and Eve Parshalie,
secretary-treasurer. A newspaper article from 1951 states that it was at
that time sponsoring a Hall of Aviation (or Aeronautical) History, to be
located in Studio City; this project was never realized.

The Brookins-Lahm-Wright Aeronautical Foundation, Inc., organized in 1949,
and incorporated on December 17, 1953, to support the Portal of the Folded
Wings, the Library of the Institute of Aeronautical History, and the
Gillette Museum Center of Aeronautical Documentation. Its chairman in 1956
was Brigadier General Frank P. Lahm, and its president James N.
Gillette.

The National Aerographic Society, Inc., and its publication, the
National Aerographic Portfolio, Commander George
Noville, editor. The sole issue of the
National
Aerographic Portfolio
, a portfolio of 14 plates reproducing
items in the Library of the Institute of Aeronautical History and the
Santos-Dumont Aeronautical Foundation, was published on December 17, 1952.
Copies of Plates II-XIV are in folder 8, Walter R. Brookins Aviation
Collection, Special Collections Department, Honnold/Mudd Library;

The Los Angeles Scientific and Technical Museum, Inc., whose purpose and
history have not yet been determined;

The Aeronaeum, whose purpose and history have not yet been determined;
and

The
Journal of Aeronautical History,
Charles Dollfus, editor. The sole publication of the Journal appears to have
been a 1950 facsimile reprint of the first edition of Rousseau's
le nouveau dédale (1801).

Although the primary purpose of the Aero Educational Research Organization/Institute
of Aeronautical History was historical research and to support Carruthers'
aeronautical collection, the Organization was among the backers of Cecil Allen's
ill-fated entry in the 1935 Bendix race from Burbank to Cleveland (Allen was killed
when his Granville Brothers composite R-3 "Spirit of Right" crashed upon takeoff on
August 30 from Union Air Terminal in Burbank).

Despite the enthusiasm of Carruthers and the pioneer fliers of his generation,
neither the Institute of Aeronautical History nor any of its related organizations
appears to have attracted the support of younger generations, and none is currently
active.

The prints (both original and reproduction) and drawings document in particular the
development of French and British ballooning from 1783 to 1785, British ballooning
in the 19th century, and historic U.S. civil and military aircraft, including
balloons, dirigibles, and fixed-wing airplanes, 1903 to circa 1950. The materials
include portraits of many pioneer balloonists, depictions of famous balloons and
fantastic flying machines, representations of the ceremonial and military uses of
balloons, and examples the use of ballooning imagery in political satire of the day.
They also include many portfolios of reproductions of paintings by Charles H.
Hubbell of historic 20th-century aircraft, and computer-generated renderings of a
U.S. military "flying wing", circa 1980.

The collection contains photographs and a wide range of printed materials documenting
air meets and shows--including the 1910 Los Angeles Air Meet at Dominguez Hills, the
1946 Radlett Air Show, and the 1959 World Congress of Flight--as well as historic
flights, in particular, the original records of Cecil Allen and Donald Moyle's 1931
transpacific flight.

The collection also contains extensive photographic, printed, and other materials on
pioneer aviators, including Juan de la Cierva, Glenn Curtiss, Amelia Earhart, Arch
Hoxey, A. Roy Knabenshue, Charles A. Lindbergh, Clyde Pangborn, Igor Sikorsky,
Charles E. Taylor, and the Wright brothers. The materials on the Wright brothers
include several photographs and postcards, a toy butterfly purported to have
inspired their interest in flight, and a piece of the 1903 Kitty Hawk hangar.
Materials relating to Knabenshue include the original printing plates for 32 of the
original 56 photographic illustrations in his 1907 book,
Compliments of Roy Knabenshue, which documents his activities in
ballooning and in the development of the dirigible in the period between 1903 and
mid-1907. In addition to photographs, materials on Lindbergh include two metal
pieces from the "Spirit of St. Louis" and five 78-rpm sound recordings of his 1927
visit to Washington, DC, upon his return from Paris, and of popular songs and dances
composed in honor of his flight. The photographs in the collection also include an
1883 autographed image of the brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier with their
airship, and images of Matilde Moisant and Harriet Quimby.

In addition to individual aviators, the collection contains extensive photographic
and printed materials on individual aircraft, aircraft manufacturers, and airlines.
Postcards published circa 1930 depict historic aircraft and models in the Science
Museum, London, including Henson and Stringfellow's flying machine of 1844-1845, Sir
Hiram Maxim's 1894 flying machine, and biplanes by (inter alia) Voisin, Farman,
Avro, Bristol, De Havilland, and Fairey. The bulk of the materials relates to
aircraft of U.S., British, French, and German manufacture, and dates from circa 1930
to 1960. The materials relating to Consolidated Aircraft (later Consolidated Vultee,
popularly known as Convair), are particularly extensive. Other U.S. manufacturers
include Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, Curtiss-Wright Corp., Dayton
Engineering Laboratories Co. [DELCO], Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Northrop Aircraft,
Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Co., and Sikorsky Aircraft Co. The Curtiss materials
include complete blueprints (1915-1918) for the JN4D "Jenny"; the Lockheed materials
include a June 1936 range study of the Lockheed Electra bimotor airplane (the model
used by Earhart on her last flight). British corporations include Bristol Aeroplane
Co., British Aircraft Corp., De Havilland Enterprise, Folland Aircraft, Hawker
Siddeley Group, Rolls Royce, Saunders-Roe, and Vickers-Armstrongs. French
corporations include Hispano-Suiza, Louis Breguet, Marcel Dassault, S.N.C.A.S.E.,
S.N.C.A.S.O., and S.N.E.C.M.A.. Materials relating to German corporations include
photographs of aircraft belonging to Deruluft (Deutsch-Russische Luftverkehrs AG),
which flew between Berlin and Moscow, 1929-1936; photographs of the Dornier Do X
flying boat of 1930, autographed by the captain and other members of the crew; and
photographs and a "Bord Album" of the LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin", as well as an autograph
album, 1895-1902, containing the signatures of Ferdinand Graf Zeppelin and other
members of his family. While the materials emphasize contemporary production, those
produced by Convair, Hawker-Siddeley, Northrop, and Hydravions Schreck also include
many photographs of historic aircraft. Of special note, promotional materials
published between 1919 and 1930 by DELCO, Pitcairn-Cierva, Hydravions Schreck, and
Romaircraft are examples of exceptional quality in design and production. The
collection also includes typescript corporate histories, 1953-circa 1959, of Boeing
Airplane Co., Braniff Airways, Bristol Aeroplane Co., Eastern Airlines, Lear, Inc.,
Los Angeles Airways, and Pan American Airways.

Additional printed materials in the collection include newspaper clippings, in
particular those for the period 1844-1902, taken largely from the
Illustrated London News; a small number of technical
papers on aeronautical topics; several pamphlets printed in pocket book format for
use by aviators "in the field"; illustration blocks and color plates to Gaston
Tissandier,
Histoire des ballons et des aéronauts
celébres
(1887); and in-house publications of airplane manufacturers,
commercial airlines, and other businesses that employed airplanes in the course of
their operations.

The collection includes a large number of draft maps and plans of airports and
airfields, circa 1924-1931, prepared by the Aeronautics Branch of the U.S.
Department of Commerce and published in the
List of airports
and landing fields
(1928-1931) and
Descriptions
of airports and landing fields in the United States
(1931ff). Additional
papers and photographs relate to several California airports; to the the Portal of
the Folded Wings, Valhalla Memorial Park, bordering the airport in Burbank,
California; and to the Zentralflughafen in Berlin and Le Bourget airport in
Paris.

Sheet music of songs with aeronautical themes, 1876-1952, emphasizes the hold that
aviation held on the American public imagination. The bulk of the materials was
written for the American popular market prior to 1917, but the materials include
five songs from 1927 celebrating Charles A. Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, and
two items from 1938 the exploits of Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan. The latest item is
Song of the Air Force (1950), by the pioneer
aviator Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes, inscribed by the author to Dr. Carruthers,
and signed by Maj. Charles E. "Chet" Yaeger.

In addition to sound recordings relating to Charles A. Lindbergh's visit to
Washington, DC, upon his return from Paris in 1927, the collection includes a 1964
reproduction of a short 1935 speech by Amelia Earhart, a 1962 oral history of the
first 20 years of Aerojet-General Corporation, and a recording issued in 1977 of
Eddie Rickenbacker recalling his experiences as a World War I ace.

Memorabilia and ephemera in the collection include a pictorial souvenir of the 1910
Brussels Exhibition; a piece of fabric from an early Curtiss airplane; four
bookmarks made from fabric of the balloon "Explorer II", which attained the world's
altitude record of 72,395 feet in 1935; two first day covers of the First Man on the
Moon U.S. 10-cent stamp, 1969; airline schedules; airmail envelope labels, luggage
tags, and menu cards for various U.S. airlines; decals advertising the 1935 National
Air Races and the 1953 50th anniversary of powered flight; greeting cards with
balloon and airplane motifs; postcards of California scenes with biplanes, circa
1910; and a ticket for a free airplane ride over San Francisco Bay courtesy of Frank
and Freddie's restaurant.

The collection also includes a small amount of personal materials of Dr. Carruthers
not directly relating to aeronautics. The materials include a 1957 interview;
correspondence with the artist Violet Oakley, 1931-1932; a copy of a poem attributed
to Robert Burns; and postcards and prints on non-aviation themes.

This series consists of scrapbook pages, watercolors, prints (both original
and reproduction), drawings, handbills, calendars, and plates from
publications, relating to aviation. It is particularly strong in French and
British aerostation (ballooning), 1783-1785, in 19th-century ballooning, and
in historic U.S. civil and military aircraft, 1903 to circa 1950.

The materials include prints from Barthélémy Faujas de Saint-Fond,
Première suite de la description des expériences
aérostatiques de MM. de Montgolfier
, Tome second (Paris: Cuchet,
1784), as well as original and reproduction prints--many of the latter taken
from François-Louis Bruel,
Histoire aéronautique par
les monuments peints, sculptés, dessinés et gravés, des origines à
1830
(Paris, 1909)--of most of the earliest balloon ascents from
1783 to the late 1780s. The collection also contains several scrapbook pages
and a large number of prints and handbills relating to ballooning in
Britain, 1836-1870, in particular the career of Charles Green. The materials
include portraits of many pioneer balloonists, including the Montgolfier
brothers, James Sadler, and Vincent Lunardi, and depictions of the most
famous balloons, including "Le Flesselle" (1784), Count Lennox's "Eagle"
(1835), the "Vauxhall Royal Balloon" (later, "Great Nassau Balloon"), and
Professor Lowe's "Mammoth Balloon" (1859).

Other prints document the 18th-century obsession with methods of steering
balloons, in particular the use of eagles, and the 18th- and 19th-century
fascination with fantastic flying machines, including two prints, from the
mid 1780s and 1843, respectively, based on the engraving "Pro bono publico",
first printed by Willir in 1784. The materials also document the ceremonial
and military uses of balloons. Balloons are also represented in several
satirical prints, including James Gillray's 1810 caricature of the
installation of Lord Grenville as Chancellor of Oxford University and the
"Ascending and Descending, or Balloon and Dragoon, A scene at Portobello
Baracks, June 27th, 1822".

Twentieth-century materials include a calendar of exhibits in the National
Air And Space Museum; pochoir prints of European aviation events, 1908-1910;
photographic images of airships, dirigibles, and airplanes, 1919-1931;
large-size color lithographs of military aircraft built by Consolidated
Vultee, circa 1941-1945; as well as several portfolios containing
reproductions of paintings of historic aircraft, by Charles H. Hubbell; and
computer-generated renderings of a U.S. military "flying wing", circa
1980.

Subseries 1.1:
Watercolors.Circa 1855-1920.

Physical Description:
1 volume + 1 folder.

Scope and Contents note

This subseries consists of two items: (1) a small volume of original pen
and watercolor images (many fantastical), by an unknown artist and
dating from approximately 1855, of methods of aerial, water-borne, and
steam locomotion; and (2) a watercolor, circa 1920, of an Avro 504
biplane, by Geoffrey Watson.

This subseries consists of scrapbook pages, prints (both original and
reproduction), drawings, handbills, and plates from publications,
relating to aviation. It is particularly strong in French and British
aerostation (ballooning), 1783-1785, in 19th-century English ballooning,
and in historic U.S. civil and military aircraft, 1903 to circa
1950.

Eighteenth-century events represented include the first hydrogen balloon
ascent, Paris, August 1783; the first three human balloon ascents (by
Pilatre de Rosier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, from la Muette, November
1783; by Charles and Robert, from the garden of the Tuilleries, December
1783; and of "Le Flesselle", at Lyon, January 1784); and Blanchard and
Jeffries making the first Channel crossing, January 1785. The materials
include portraits of Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier, 1783; and of James
Sadler, the first English balloonist, 1785; as well as several prints
relating to Vincent Lunardi. Other prints depict various proposed
methods of steering balloons, in particular the use of eagles. "Inventé
pour le bien present et celui de la posterité", a satirical
representation of a fantastic airship, is derived from the engraving
"Pro bono publico", first printed by Willir in 1784.

Nineteenth-century materials include several scrapbook pages and a large
number of prints and handbills relating to ballooning in Britain,
1836-1870, in particular the career of Charles Green and the "Vauxhall
Royal Balloon" (later, "Great Nassau Balloon"). Other materials relate
to ascents by James Sadler (1810-1813). The materials include depictions
of well known balloons, including Count Lennox's "Eagle", 1835, and
Professor Lowe's "Mammoth Balloon", 1859. The 19th century fascination
with fantastic flying machines is documented by a double-sided
full-color 1843 broadside, favorably comparing the "Great Aerial
Navigator or Atmospheric Machine"--a fantastical machine based on
Willir's 1784 engraving "Pro bono publico"--with W. S. Henson's "Aerial"
and by a modern reproduction of an 1841 print of the "Great Steam Duck"
of Louisville. The materials also document the ceremonial (the
coronation of Napoleon and Josephine, 1804; Carlos E. Pellegrini,
"Fiestas Mayas en Buenos Aires", 1841) and military (the battle of Fair
Oaks, Virginia, 1862; Eugène Godard building balloons in the gare
d'Orléans, Paris, during the Franco-Prussian War, 1871) uses of
balloons. Balloons are also represented in several satirical prints,
including James Gillray's 1810 caricature of the installation of Lord
Grenville as Chancellor of Oxford University and "Ascending and
Descending, or Balloon and Dragoon, A scene at Portobello Baracks, June
27th, 1822".

The bulk of the 20th-century materials consists of portolios of
lithographic prints, including one of military aircraft built by
Consolidated Vultee, circa 1941-1945; another of military and civilian
aircraft built by Lockheed Aircraft Corp., circa 1948; and several
containing reproductions of paintings of historic aircraft by Charles H.
Hubbell, published by Thompson Products, Cleveland, Ohio, sponsor of the
Thompson Flying Trophy. The materials also include 13 hand-colored
pochoir prints by French artists Ernest and Marguerite ("Gamy") Montaut,
photographic images of U.S. and British airships, dirigibles, and
fixed-wing aircraft from
The Mentor and
various publications of the Royal United Service Institution, circa
1919-1931, and computer-generated renderings of a U.S. military "flying
wing", circa 1980.

Subsubseries 1.2.1:
Scrapbook Pages.1784-1850 (bulk, 1836-1850).

Physical Description:
6 items.

Arrangement note

Ordered chronologically.

Scope and Contents note

This subsubseries comprises large sheets with multiple attachments,
including prints, handbills, newspaper clippings, and journal
articles. It is arranged in chronological order. The earliest page
contains two engravings from the second volume of Barthélémy Faujas
de Saint-Fond,
Première suite de la
description des expériences aérostatiques de MM. de
Montgolfier
(1784): the second human ascent, by Jacques
Charles and Noel Robert from the garden of the Tuilleries, Paris,
December 1, 1783; and the third human ascent, of "Le Flesselle", the
largest hot-air balloon ever constructed, at Lyon, 19 January 1784.
The remaining pages relate to ballooning in Britain, 1836-1870, in
particular the career of Charles Green and the "Vauxhall Royal
Balloon" (later, "Great Nassau Balloon"). They were probably
originally part of the William Upton scrapbook now housed at the
National Air and Space Museum Archives. Materials include a print of
the environs of Liège, as seen from the "Vauxhall Royal Balloon",
November 7, 1836, and a portrait of Green, circa 1870; an autograph
note by Green; and handbills advertising ascents by Green in 1839,
1845, 1846, and 1850. The materials also include accounts of ascents
by John Hampton (1838, 1839) and Hugh Bell (1850), and a
double-sided full-color broadside, published in 1843, favorably
comparing the "Great Aerial Navigator or Atmospheric Machine"--a
fantastical machine based on the engraving "Pro bono publico" first
printed by J. Willir, London, in 1784--with W. S. Henson's
"Aerial".

"Environs of Liège,
seen from the balloon at night" [Liège, as seen
from the "Vauxhall Royal Balloon", by Charles
Green, Robert Hollond, MP, and Monck Mason,
November 7, 1836]. A. Butler, Lith., from a sketch
of Monck Mason. -- 1 lithograph : color ; 7.25 x
9.5 in. [trimmed].

Certification by
Green that he had made 273 ascents since his first
at the coronation of George IV. Dated Honington
Hall, October 11, 1839. -- 1 autograph note :
3.875 x 4.25 in.

[bottom]

"Memorandum"
commemorating Green's 3rd ascent from the city of
Norwich, October 14, 1839, his 274th since his
first at the coronation of George IV. John Stacy,
Printer, Old Haymarket, Norwich. -- 1 handbill :
rose paper ; 6.75 x 7.75 in.

Box 3, Folder 2

Ballooning in Britain.1843-1846.

General Physical Description note: 1
scrapbook page : 21 x 12.75 in.

Contents:

[recto]

"The Correct Models,
and a true description of the Rival Aerial
Inventions! The Great Aerial Navigator, or
Atmospheric Machine, by the Aerial Conveyance
Company; and the Flying Steam Carriage, by the
Aerial Transit Company". 2nd edition. Dated Feb 20
and April 2, 1843. -- 1 broadside : color; 20 x
14.625 in. -- Note: the "Flying Steam Carriage" is
the "Aerial" of William Samuel Henson and John
Stringfellow.

George Augustus
Sala, letter to the
Times [London], describing his ascent
with Hugh Bell in an experimental dirigible
balloon, Vauxhall Gardens, Monday, July 22, 1850.
Clipping from the
Times -- 1 journal clipping.

Subsubseries 1.2.2:
Single Items.1783-circa
1980.

Physical Description:
90 folders.

Arrangement note

Ordered chronologically.

Scope and Contents note

This subsubseries includes prints (both original and reproduction),
handbills, and plates from publications, and is arranged
chronologically by the date of the event or (in the case of
portraits) of publication.

Eighteenth-century events represented include the first hydrogen
balloon ascent, Champ de Mars, Paris, August 27, 1783; the first
three human balloon ascents (by François Pilatre de Rosier and
François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, from la Muette, November 21,
1783; by Jacques Charles and Noel Robert, from the garden of the
Tuilleries, December 1, 1783; and of "Le Flesselle", at Lyon,
January 19, 1784); and Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr. John Jeffries
making the first Channel crossing, January 7, 1785. The materials
include portraits of Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier, 1783; and of
James Sadler, the first English balloonist, 1785. The materials also
include several prints relating to Vincent Lunardi, including an
engraving of his "Grand Air Balloon", 1785, a print of Lunardi, Mrs.
Sage, and George Biggin ascending in Lunardi's balloon, 1785, and
two caricatures, "The English Balloon, 1784" of Lunardi's 1784
balloon, and "Aerostation out at Elbows or the itinerant Aeronaut"
(1785)--attributed to Thomas Rowlandson--of Lunardi himself. Several
prints depict various proposed methods of steering balloons, in
particular the use of eagles. "Inventé pour le bien present et celui
de la posterité", a satirical representation of a fantastic airship,
is derived from the engraving "Pro bono publico", first printed by
Willir in 1784. Francesco Guardi's drawing of the ascent by Count
Francesco Zambeccari over the Giudecca Canal, Venice, 1784, may
possibly be a forgery, as it appears to be a line-for-line copy of
the drawing illustrated in James Byam Shaw,
The Drawings of Francesco Guardi (London: Faber and
Faber, [1949]), plate 46. (A reproduction of Guardi's painting based
on this drawing is in subseries 1.4, box 5, item 18.)

Ballooning materials from the 19th century include prints and
handbills relating to ascents by James Sadler (1810, 1812, 1813),
John Hampton (1839), and Charles Green (1845, 1851), as well as to a
parachute descent by A. J. Garnerin in England, 1802, and to other
parachute descents at Philadelphia and Easton, 1850. Well known
balloons depicted include Count Lennox's "Eagle", 1835; the
"Vauxhall Royal Balloon" (later "Great Nassau Balloon"), 1836;
Professor Lowe's "Mammoth Balloon", 1859; and the French balloon
"L'Esperance", 1865. The "Great Steam Duck" of Louisville, 1841,
represents the 19th-century American public's fascination with
fantastic flying machines. Prints of the ceremonial use of balloons
include the coronation of Napoleon and Josephine, 1804; the
festivities of the Grand Jubilee, Green Park, London, 1814; and
Carlos E. Pellegrini, "Fiestas Mayas en Buenos Aires" (1841). Prints
of the military use of balloons include the battle of Fleurus, 1794;
the battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia, 1862; a reproduction of a
photograph by Matthew Brady of soldiers inflating professor Lowe's
balloon, circa 1861-1864; Eugène Godard building balloons in the
gare d'Orléans, Paris, during the Franco-Prussian War, 1871; and the
trials of the dirigible "la France", 1884. Balloons are also
represented in several satirical prints, including James Gillray's
1810 caricature of the installation of Lord Grenville as Chancellor
of Oxford University; "Ascending and Descending, or Balloon and
Dragoon, A scene at Portobello Baracks, June 27th, 1822"; and
Every Body's Album, & Caricature
Magazine
, 1834. The Gillray caricature differs in
details from the print usually described (cf. Draper Hill, ed.,
Fashionable Contrasts: Caricatures by
James Gillray
[London: Phaidon Press, 1966], plate 49)
and may represent an earlier state.

Materials from the 20th century relate primarily to fixed-wing
aircraft, although the collection does contain a tinted photographic
print of Santos Dumont No. 6 (1901), as well as photographic
illustrations of several 20th-century airships and dirigibles,
including H.M. airship R.101 (1929) and the U.S. naval airship
"Akron" (1931). The materials include a set of 6 photographic
illustrations of civilian and military aircraft published in
The Mentor, 1919; 18 pages of
photographic illustrations of primarily British military and
civilian aircraft taken from publications of the Royal United
Services Institution, circa 1920-1931; and a large poster
reproducing historic photographs and modern paintings by Jack
Woodson of famous aircraft, 1903-1970. The materials also include
large-size color lithographs of military aircraft built by
Consolidated Vultee, circa 1941-1945, and of military and civilian
aircraft built by Lockheed Aircraft Corp., circa 1948, as well as
computer-generated renderings of a U.S. military "flying wing",
circa 1980.

Probably a 20th century line-for-line forgery on 18th century
paper. See James Byam Shaw,
The Drawings
of Francesco Guardi
(London: Faber and Faber,
[1949]), pp. 51-53, 70-71 and plate 46. For a reproduction of
Guardi's painting based on this drawing see Subseries 1.4, box
5, item 18.

Very similar to, but differing in details from, the print as
published by H. Humphrey, London. For a detailed description of
the symbolism, see Draper Hill, ed.,
Fashionable Contrasts; Caricatures by James Gillray
(London: Phaidon Press, 1966), plate 49 and pp. 158-159.

Box 1, Folder 19

"Fête du sacre et couronnement de leurs majestés
impériales" [Festivities for the coronation of Napoleon and
Josephine, Place de la Concorde, Paris].
December 3, 1804.

Engraved by M. Dubourg after J. H. Clark. Published [London:]
Edward Orme, August 12, 1814. In Green Park, London, part of the
festivities of the Grand Jubilee, celebrating 100 years of
Hannoverian rule and the recent defeat of Napoleon.

Box 1, Folder 24

"The Natives of Torneä Lapmark, assembled at Enontekis,
to witness the launching [of] the first Balloon within the
Arctic Circle".
Circa 1816.

Three panels from
Tableau de l'art
aérostatique et de la direction des ballons
(Paris:
Maison Basset, Rue de Seine, 33, [c1851]), depicting the
development of lighter-than-air machines down to
1851.
1851.

Capt. Albert W. Stevens, "The first photograph ever made
showing the division between the troposphere and the
stratosphere and also the actual curvature of the
earth-photographed from an elevation of 72,395 feet, the highest
point ever reached by man".
1936.

General Physical Description note: 1
print : 16.75 x 24 in.

Note:

Copyright Supplement to the
National
Geographic
magazine, May, 1936.

Box 4, Folder 2

The Thompson Trophy. "Winners All" (pilots and planes
that have finished first in Thompson Trophy races, 1930 to
1937).
Circa 1937.

This subsubseries comprises reproductions of works of art on aviation
themes by 20th-century artists. It is arranged alphabetically by
artist. The bulk of the materials consists of reproductions of
paintings by Charles H. Hubbell, published by Thompson Products, an
aircraft parts supplier in Cleveland, Ohio, and sponsor of the
Thompson Flying Trophy. The materials were published in portfolios,
most commonly of 12 prints. The portfolios are arranged
chronologically, by date of event pictured, from famous civilian
airplanes, 1903-1914, to U.S. World War II military aircraft. Other
materials include 13 hand-colored pochoir prints, 1908-1910, by
French artists Ernest Montaut and his wife Marguerite Montaut (who
also signed her work as "Gamy"); a portfolio of paintings by Arthur
Beaumont of U.S. World War II warships under aerial attack; a
painting of aerial combat signed "Henri Farré, 1915"; four
watercolors by Albert Leroux on French ballooning, 1783-1864; an
album of illustrations by Henry B. Maas,
Airplanes in action, circa 1934; and Stratford Edward
St. Leger's painting, "War balloon on the march", circa 1900.

This subseries consists of a single calendar, the National Air and Space
Museum,
1999 Calendar: Milestones of
Flight
, with color photographs of 12 exhibits in the
National Air and Space Museum, from the Wright Brothers' 1903 flyer to
the Apollo 11 command module "Columbia" (1969).

Box 4, Folder 18

National Air and Space Museum. 1999 Calendar: Milestones of
Flight.
c1998

Photographs of the following exhibits in the National Air
and Space Museum:

Wright Brothers' 1903 flyer.

Fokker T-2, in which Lts. Oakley G. Kelley and John A.
Macready made the first nonstop transcontinental flight,
1923.

Douglas World Cruiser "Chicago", in which Lts. Lowell H.
Smith and Leslie Arnold made the first round-the-world
flight, 1924.

Ryan NYP "Spirit of St. Louis", in which Charles A.
Lindbergh made the first solo transatlantic flight,
1927.

Lockheed Vega 5B, in which Amelia Earhart became the first
woman to fly nonstop solo across both the Atlantic and the
United States, 1932.

Boeing 247-D, the first modern airliner, 1933.

Bell XP-59A Airacomet, the United States' first jet
aircraft, 1942.

Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis", the first aircraft to fly
faster than the speed of sound, 1947.

Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, first U.S. jet fighter in
service to fly at Mach 2, 1954.

North American X-15A-1, first winged aircraft to reach
speeds of Mach 4, 5, and 6, and to fly at altitudes well
above 100,000 feet, 1959-1967.

Gemini IV, that carried James A. McDivitt and Edward H.
White II in 1965 when White became the first American to
"walk" in space.

Apollo 11 command module "Columbia", that carried Neil
Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. Aldrin into lunar
orbit and back to Earth when Armstrong became the first
person to walk on the moon, 1969.

This subseries consists of plates removed from the copy of François-Louis
Bruel,
Histoire aéronautique par les monuments
peints, sculptés, dessinés et gravés, des origines à 1830
(Paris, 1909), cataloged as Special Collections Aviation TL515.B832. The
plates are arranged by number. Many are mounted on heavy card stock, and
may have been used as exhibits in the aeronautical exhibition at the
Claremont Colleges circa 1982. With four exceptions the plates reproduce
documents from the years 1783 and 1785 relating in particular to the
ascent of the Montgolfier balloon at Versailles, September 19, 1783;
various ascents by Jean-Pierre Blanchard, including his crossing of the
Channel with Dr. John Jeffries; the first balloon ascent at Strassbourg,
March 1784; the fatal ascent by the abbé Miolan in the Luxembourg
Gardens, Paris, in July 1784; the fatal accident to François Pilatre de
Rozier and Romain as they attempted to cross the Channel from France to
Britain in June 1785; and to Vincent Lombardi. Plate 140 (box 5, folder
18) reproduces a painting by Francesco Guardi of Count Francesco
Zambeccari's ascent over the Giudecca canal, Venice, for which the
drawing (possibly a forgery) in Subsubseries 1.2.2, box 1, folder 9, is
a preparatory study. Events after 1798 documented are an equestion
ascent by Pierre Testu-Brissy at Meudon, October 16, 1798; the
coronation of Napoleon and Josephine, December 3, 1804; the ascent by
James Sadler and Capt. Paget from the gardens of the mermaid Tavern,
Hackney, August 12, 1811; and an 1830 engraving of "Ballon de Fête
religieuse" at Frascati.

Plates 42/43 on 1 sheet [extra copy].
Plate 42 -
Portrait of F. Pilatre de Rozier.
Plate 43 - Cachet Pilatre de
Rozier and the marquis d'Arlandes, dated November 21, 1783, the date
of their ascent at la Muette, with their initials and a
representation of the balloon.
1783.

Plates 91/92 on 1 sheet.
Plate 91 - Receipt
[reproduction] for subscription in the amount of 6 livres to the
ascent of the abbé Miolan at the Luxembourg gardens on July 11,
1784.
Plate 92 - Entry ticket [reproduction] to the
ascent.
1784.

General Physical Description note: 2
copies.

Box 5, Item 9

Plate 93 - The burning of Miolan and Janinet's Balloon at the
Luxembourg gardens.
July 11, 1784.

Plate 107 - "Vue de la Garenne du Roy à Vimereux, a cinq
quart de lieue de Boulogne sur Mer", the fatal accident to Pilatre
de Rozier and Romain as they attempt to cross the Channel from
France to Britain in an experimental balloon.
June 15, 1785.

This series comprises photographs and postcards relating to aviation,
particularly for the period 1909-1950. It includes photographs documenting
the Los Angeles Aviation Meet of January 1910, the Belmont Park Aviation
Meet of october 1910, the San Francisco Air Meet of January 1911, the
Radlett Air Show of September 1946, and the World Congress of Flight of
April 1959. A large number of photographs document individual aviators, in
particular, Arch Hoxey, the Wright brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and Clyde
Pangborn. The materials also include an 1883 autographed photograph of the
brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier with their airship, and images of
Matilde Moisant and Harriet Quimby, circa 1912. The bulk of the photographs
of individual aircraft relate to those of U.S., French, and German
manufacture, in particular, Consolidated Aircraft (later Consolidated
Vultee, popularly known as Convair), 1923-1956; S.N.C.A.S.O., 1950-1958; and
the Dornier DoX flying boat of 1930. The photographs include images of the
airships USS Akron, Columbia, and Mayflower, and of the LZ127 "Graf
Zeppelin". A number of postcards published circa 1930 depict historic
aircraft and models in the Science Museum, London, including Henson and
Stringfellow's flying machine of 1844-1845, Sir Hiram Maxim's 1894 flying
machine, and biplanes by (inter alia) Voisin, Farman, Avro, Bristol, De
Havilland, and Fairey. A small number of photographs document several U.S.
airlines and Deruluft (Deutsch-Russische Luftverkehrs AG), which flew
between Berlin and Moscow between 1929 and 1936; as well as the
Zentralflughafen, Berlin, and Le Bourget airport, Paris, circa 1930.

Subseries 2.1:
Collections.1910-1938 (bulk, 1930-1931).

Physical Description:
17 folders.

Arrangement note

Ordered chronologically.

Scope and Contents note

This subseries comprises groups of photographs, each group obtained from
a single source, kept together in order to preserve their context. The
subseries contains three such collections.

The W. A. Sloan collection was found in an envelope from W. A. Sloan, 159
N. Evergreen, Ventura, California, addressed to Roy W. Judd, 4602 N.
Laurens Ave., Baldwin Park, California. The photographs date from the
period 1910-1912 and primarily concern the aviator Arch Hoxsey (d.
1910); other photographs relate to the Belmont Park Aviation Meet,
October 1910, while the remaining are unidentified.

The Newswire company photograph collection was found in the basement of
Mabel Shaw Bridges Auditorium in May 1962. It consists of photographs
taken by photographic news agencies, in particular International News
Photos and International Newsreel. The photographs date from 1918
through 1938, with the majority dating from January 1930 through
February 1931; they are arranged chronologically. They concern the major
aviation events and leading aviators-with special emphasis on female
aviators-of the time. The events include the launch of the Dornier DO-X
Flying Shark seaplane; the first non-stop airplane crossing from Paris
to New York, by Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte; the transatlantic
flight from Italy to Brazil led by Italian Air Minister General Italo
Balbo; the 1930 US visit of Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller; and the 1931
Schneider Cup race at Calshot, Great Britain. The aviators include Jimmy
Angel, Florence Lowe ("Pancho") Barnes, the Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce,
Juanita Burns, Marga von Etzdorf, Frank Hawks, Lady Drummond Hay, Mike
Murphy, and "Bobby" Trout and Edna May Cooper. The photographs include
several of couples who were married in airplanes aloft. Other
photographs depict contemporary politicians, socialites, and film stars
and starlets alighting from or ascending into airplanes.

Two panoramic photographs were found in the basement of Honnold Library
in 2010. One depicts the formal reception for flyers from the USSR held
by the Los Angeles city authorities and Chamber of Commerce in 1937; the
other documents the 26th annual convention of the American Legion,
Department of California, in Los Angeles in 1944.

Donald Babcock and Marjorie Klinger, who parachuted
from an airplane immediately after being married, with
Eugene Flanagan, JP, who performed the marriage
aloft.
November 25, 1929.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 5-10

News photographs.1930.

Physical Description:
6 folders.

Box 6, Folder 5, Item 1

Mrs. Robert H. Gray, with 14-month-old son Robert,
Jr. Shortly after the photograph was taken, Mrs. Gray and
her husband, Lt. Robert H. Gray, British World War I ace and
branch manager of the Texas Air Transport, were killed in
the crash of the plane "Miss Amarillo". Amarillo,
TX.
January 2, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 5, Item 2

Joe Nikrent, timer for the National Aeronautic
Association, and Florence Lowe ("Pancho") Barnes, after Mrs.
Barnes became the women's world champion speed pilot at
196.19 miles an hour. Los Angeles, CA.
August 5, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International Newsreel.

Box 6, Folder 5, Item 3

Flight crew of the Dornier DO-X Flying Shark seaplane
before its departure on its transatlantic flight from
Friedrichshaven, Germany, to New York. Friedrichshafen,
Germany.
August 23, 1930.

Dieudonne Coste on the shoulders of the crowd at
Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream, Long Island, after making,
with his partner Maurice Bellonte, the first non-stop
airplane crossing from Paris to New York. Valley Stream,
Long Island, NY.
September 2, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 card ; 2.25 x 3.75 in. Written on the reverse: "Did not
come here, but turned back on account of fog".

Box 6, Folder 5, Item 6

Mrs. Aline Hoffheimer Bamberger, NY artist, who won a
divorce from her husband, stockbroker L. Richard Bamberger,
at Reno, NV.
October 22, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6 x 8 in.

Note:

Pacific & Atlantic Photos.

Box 6, Folder 6, Item 1

Mrs. Adele K. Cleaver, British aviator and society
leader, who flew from London to India, in front of her
airplane during her pleasure tour of the United States.
Syracuse, NY.
October 24, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 6, Item 2

British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald being helped
out of his great coat, after arriving at the Croydon Air
Display from Chequers by plane. Croydon,
England.
October 25, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.

Note:

Graphic Photo Union.

Box 6, Folder 6, Item 3

Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller, Australian aviator, standing
on the wing of her monoplane at Curtiss Airport, Valley
Stream, Long Island, after establishing a new west-east
flight record of 21 hours 47 minutes. Valley Stream,
NY.
October 26, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 6, Item 4

Aerial view of Sofia, Bulgaria, showing the Greek
Orthodox cathedral of St. Alexander of Neva, to be the scene
of the marriage of King Boris of Bulgaria and Princess
Giovanna of Italy. Sofia, Bulgaria.
October 30, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 6, Item 5

Lady Drummond Hay, aviator and journalist, with her
secretary, in her specially outfitted Pussmoth plane.
London, England.
October 31, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.

Note:

Wide World Photos.

Box 6, Folder 7, Item 1

Men and women at Chicago municipal airport, waiting
for planes to carry them to Detroit, where they will
purchase cars and drive them back. Chicago, IL.
October 31, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 7, Item 2

Martha C. Bevins waving from Pacer monoplane during
trial flight prior to departing on attempt to break
trans-continental flight record of Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller.
North Beach, Long Island, NY.
November 3, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 7, Item 3

J. G. Cates, of the Curtiss Company of Cuba,
welcoming Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller on her arrival at Havana
from Pittsburgh, PA, in a flying time of 12 hours 8 minutes.
Havana, Cuba.
November 26, 1930.

William Beard, of New Milford, CT, son of authors
Charles and Mary Beard, at work at the District of Columbia
Air legion Headquarters, where he is a student. Washington,
DC.
November 28, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 8, Item 1-2

Official at General Machado Airport, Havana, Cuba,
supervising loading of food, water, blankets, and rubber
life boats in one of the two planes sent out to search for
Mrs. J. M. Keither-Miller, reported missing on her return
flight from Havana to Pittsburgh, PA. Havana,
Cuba.
December 1, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 2 photographs : 8 x 10 inches.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 8, Item 3

Italian Air Minister General Italo Balbo (right)
confers with Commandant Umberto Maddalena (middle),
commander of Italy's seaplane forces, on the route to be
followed by the squadron of 12 Italian Air Corps seaplanes
on their impending flight from Italy to Brazil. Orbetello,
Italy.
December 3, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 8, Item 4

Seaplane No. 1 (twin-hulled Savoia Marchetti, with
Isotta Fraschini motors), in which General Italo Balbo will
lead the Squadron of 12 Italian Air Corps seaplanes on their
transatlantic flight to Brazil. Orbetello,
Italy.
December 3, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 8, Item 5

Heavyweight fighter W. L. (Young) Stribling (left)
and Louis Bevier, race official, as Stribling signs the
first entry blank for the Miami All-American Air Meet to be
held in January 1931. Miami, FL.
December 3, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6 x 8 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 8, Folder 8, Item 6

F. A. Diekhoff, Oakland and New York businessman, who
plans to ship his plane from San Francisco to the orient,
where he will make a 20,000 solo flight from Yokohama,
touring the leading cities and settlements of Japan, China,
Indo-China, Siam, the Phillipine Islands, Java, Borneo, New
Guinea, Sumatra, Malay States, India, and Ceylon. Oakland,
CA.
December 3, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 9, Item 1

Marga von Etzdorf at the Berlin Airport in the
single-seater Junker plans in which she plans to fly across
the Atlantic, from Berlin via Spain, Africa, and Teneriffa
to South America. Berlin, Germany.
December 3, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6 x 8 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 9, Folder 9, Item 2

Five of the 12 Savoia Marchetti twin-hulled seaplanes
of the Italian Air Forces, now in final tests for their
trans-Atlantic flight to Brazil. Orbetello,
Italy.
December 3, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 12 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 9, Item 3

Pilots of "Striking Eagles" Fighting Plane Squadron
3, of the carrier Lexington, winners of the Herbert Schiff
memorial Trophy for the year ending in July 1930, for flying
their gas-powered Boeing fighters 4958 hours and 600,000
miles, and making 861 take-offs and landings on the
Saratoga, Lexington, and Langley without accident. Los
Angeles, CA.
December 5, 1930.

British and Canadian visitors to Mitchel Field, Long
Island, standing beside a Curtiss Falcon biplane. Left to
right: Lt. August Kissner; Wing Commander J.
Twisstleton-Fiennes, British Air Attache at Washington; Lt.
Christy Mathewson, Jr., son of the famous ball player;
Squadron Leader L. Ferrier, Royal Canadian Air Force.
Mitchel Field, NY.
December 6, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 9, Item 5

Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller congratulated by friends upon
arriving at Miami from Andros Island in the Bahamas. Miami,
FL.
December 7, 1930.

Harry A. Bruno, aviation publicist, who handled
Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight, the Graf Zeppelin, and
the flights of Capt. Frank M. Hawks, and his wife, Nydia
D'Arnell, at Miami, where they will attend the air races to
be held January 8-10. Miami, FL.
December 26, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 10, Item 5

Juanita Burns climbing into the cockpit of her Cub
monoplane in a test flight before her attack on the women's
high altitude record of 21,598 feet held by the late Ruth
Alexander. Los Angeles, CA.
December 28, 1930.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 7 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 10, Item 6

Noted woman flyers who took part in an air parade
around New York as part of the drive for the Salvation
Army's $400,000 job relief fund.
December 28, 1930.

Left to right: Mrs. Emil Janne, witness; Miss Ruth
Bradfield, the bride; A. J. Creekmore, the bridegroom; and
Hadley Creekmore, the best man, at the Wichita Air Field,
just before going aloft for the marriage ceremony in the
Travelaire monoplane "Romancer" (which Charles A. Lindbergh
used during his courtship of Anne Morrow). Wichita,
KS.
January 3, 1931.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6 x 8 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 11, Item 2

Front: Bobby Trout and Edna May Cooper (both
endurance plane); back: Bud Hussey (pilot of the re-fueling
plane), Ralph De Rose (co-pilot of the re-fueling plane),
Paul Thomas (flight manager), in front of the plane "Lady
Rolph", before Trout and Cooper made their second attempt to
set a new endurance flight record. Los Angeles,
CA.
January 5, 1931.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 11, Item 3

Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lt. William S. MacLaren, flanked
by Commander W. H. Stiles and Lt. C. C. Champion, of the
Hampton Roads, where Hart and MacLaren were forced to pause
on their projected transatlantic flight in the seaplane
"Tradewind" because of a shortage of cash and a leaky oil
tank. Norfolk, VA.
January 5, 1931.

The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, British aviator, who flew
from London to Japan, in her Bluebird biplane on her arrival
at Los Angels from Seattle. Los Angeles, CA.
January 17, 1931.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 12, Item 1

Aerial view of the harbor at Natal, Brazil, showing
six of the ten Italian seaplanes that under the command of
General Italo Balbo successfully completed the transatlantic
flight from Orbetello, Italy (departed December 17, 1930),
to Brazil (arrived Natal, January 6, 1931). Two planes
crashed, with the loss of five lives. Natal,
Brazil.
January 20, 1931.

Seaplane G-CASK, abandoned for a year in the arctic
ice, after carrying its passengers over the north magnetic
pole. Toronto, Canada.
January 22, 1931.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 12, Item 4

Air Union Liner partially submerged in a marsh after
making a forced landing in Kent during a flight from Croydon
to Paris. Kent, England.
January 28, 1931.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 12, Item 5

Joseph Jones, 19-year-old aviator, standing beside
the small plane in which he flew from the United States to
the Bahamas. Nassau, Bahamas.
January 28, 1931.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 13, Item 1

Former governors John Trumbull of Connecticut and
Harry Flood Byrd of Virgina flank Miss Antonie Strassman,
German aviator, who took them aloft in an amphibian plane.
St. Petersburg, FL.
January 29, 1931.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 13, Item 2

The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, British aviator, upon her
arrival at Curtiss Airport after completing a tour of the
world in which all overland travel was made in her Bluebird
biplane. New York.
February 5, 1931.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

General note

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 13, Item 3

Tolger Hoirliss, Danish aviator, who is preparing for
a non-stop flight from Old Orchard, ME, to Copenhagen, DK,
in a Bellanca cabin monoplane.
[February 6, 1931].

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 13, Item 4

The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce standing on the wing of
her Bluebird biplane at Curtiss Airport upon the completion
February 5, 1931, of her world tour in which all overland
travel was made by air. New York.
February 6, 1931.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 13, Item 5

Aviation students at Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream,
Long Island, before boarding six planes for Miami. Curtiss
Airport, Long Island, NY.
February 10, 1931.

Mrs. Helen Bertaud, widow of aviator Lloyd Bertaud,
who lost his life in an attempt to fly from Maine to Rome,
and who is to be married on February 12, 1931, to broker
Henry Martyn Messinger. New York.
February 10, 1931.

Dorothy Hester, who set women's world record of five
outside loops in succession, with Tex Rankin, who will
attempt to break men's record for outside loops in
succession, at Grand Central Airport, Glendale, CA.
Glendale, CA.
February 23, 1931.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 6 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 14, Item 6

Capt. Frank Hawks (left), selected as outstanding
airman of 1930, at Boston Airport with Stanley Boynton,
after his arrival from Washington. Boston, MA.
February 24, 1931.

Mike Murphy in 2-cylinder Taylor Cub, takes off from
the roof of an automobile, at the opening of the Ninth
Annual All-American Maneuvers. Miami, FL.
December 12, 1936.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6.5 x 8.5 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 15, Item 2

Mike Murphy flying above automobile.n.d.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 8 x 10 in.

Note:

International News Photos, No. 82611.

Box 6, Folder 15, Item 3

Clarence McArthur, pilot, with students at the
Delgado Trades School, New Orleans, and the airplane they
built at school, which is entered in the Thompson Trophy
Race, to be held at the National Air Races. Cleveland,
OH.
September 1, 1937.

General Physical Description note: 1 photograph : 6.5 x 8.5 in.

Note:

International News Photos.

Box 6, Folder 15, Item 4

Govino P. Nair, first Indian to attempt an Atlantic
flight, preparing to leave from Croydon for Marseilles and
Thies, West Africa.
October 28, 1937.

The earliest photograph depicts the brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier
with their airship, the first to use electric navigation; it is dated
October 8, 1883, and is signed by both brothers. Contemporary
photographic prints relating to the Wright brothers include the brothers
posing with the "1904 Flyer" at Huffman Prairie (Simms Station), 1904;
Wilbur Wright, F. S. Lahm, and Hart O. Berg with the Wright airplane at
HunaudiŠres au Mans (Sarthe), France, 1908; and a Wright flyer over an
unidentified body of water. The collection also contains several
contemporary postcards picturing the Wright brothers at Pau, France, and
at Centocelle Field, near Rome, in 1909. The collection includes a large
photograph, signed by the subject, of Charles E. Taylor with a
half-scale model, made in 1937, of his first motor for the Wright
airplane. Photographs of Glenn Curtiss and his work include Curtiss at
the start of his record-breaking flight from Albany to New York, May 29,
1910; Navy Lt. Theodore Gordon Ellyson in a Curtiss seaplane on the
launching platform, Hammondsport, New York, September, 1911; the U.S.
Naval Curtiss Plane, 1912; and a Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" converted into a
military air ambulance, circa 1918. A group of photographs given by
author Carl M. Cleveland in May 1980 depicts the career of Clyde E.
Pangborn, from his early cadet days, through his barnstorming years, to
his partnership with Hugh Herndon in the first non-stop flight from
Japan to the United States in October 1931. Another photograph,
inscribed by the subject, depicts barnstormer V. W. "Squeek" Burnett
demonstrating precision inverted flight at the 1940 Miami air races.
Several of the barnstorming images of Pangborn, as well as the image of
Burnett, were published in Paul O'Neil,
Barnstormers & Speed Kings (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life
Books, c1980). Charles A. Lindbergh is represented in two photographs:
one depicts him in his barnstorming days, with Shorty Lynch and a dog
mascot; the other depicts him airborne in the "Spirit of St. Louis" on
his Tour of the 48 States. The collection includes several photographs
of John and Matilde Moisant, including a contemporary print of Matilde
in her flying suit, circa 1912, and a more modern reproduction print of
Matilde with Harriet Quimby, also circa 1912. The collection also
contains formal portraits of Louis Bleriot, Richard Byrd (by G. Maillard
Kesslere, New York), newspaper and radio reporter Floyd Gibbons (1933),
and William L. "Billy" Mitchell (1917). The portraits of Byrd and
Gibbons are inscribed by the subjects to Daniel Carter Beard,
illustrator, reformer, naturalist, and co-founder of the Boy Scouts of
America; the portrait of Mitchell is a 1956 reproduction of the original
in the Smithsonian Institution. The collection also includes an album of
46 photographs presented by the
Milwaukee
Sentinel
to World War II flying ace and Medal of Honor
recipient Major Richard I. Bong and his wife in 1945, shortly before the
major's death; a signed postcard depicting the Swiss parachutist
Romanesdi; and a postcard of two unidentified actors in a mock-up of a
Farman Voisin biplane, circa 1910.

Bert Acosta wishes Hugh Herndon, Jr., (left) and Clyde E.
Pangborn, "Happy Landings", before their departure from
Roosevelt Field in their wasp powered Bellanco monoplane on the
round-the-world flight in which they seek to lower the record
now held by the Graf Zeppelin. Roosevelt Field, Long Island,
NY.
July 1931.

General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 8 x 10 in.

Box 6, Folder 26, Item 8

Clyde E. Pangborn (L) with Hugh Herndon (R) holding the
sextant he proposes to use during their world flight. Roosevelt
Field, Long Island, NY.
July 1931.

General Physical Description note: 1
photograph : 10 x 8 in.

Box 6, Folder 26, Item 1

Hugh Herndon, Jr., and Clyde E. Pangborn just after
arriving in Wenatchee, WA, at end of the first non-stop flight
from Japan to the United States.
October 15, 1931.

The Los Angeles Aviation Meet at Dominguez Hills in January 1910 is
represented by two photographs, one a composite of airplanes over the
stadium, the other of French aviator Louis Paulhan over the stadium. The
collection also contains several photographic postcards of the San
Francisco Air Meet, January 1911, the gift of B. W. Cohoon, of Pomona,
CA; these postcards depict Philip Parmalee in his Wright Standard,
Hubert Latham and his "Antoinette", and a Farman biplane. Two
photographic postcards depict the Fokker C-2 "America", in which Richard
Byrd, Bert Acosta, Bernt Balchen, and George Noville flew from New York
to France in 1929, in the water at Ver-sur-Mer, at the end of the
flight. The collection includes a large-scale reproduction of a
photograph purportedly depicting a German World War I flyer falling from
his burning airplane, one of a series of photographs first exhibited in
1931 by a "Mrs. Cockburn-Lange" as the work of an unidentified RAF
officer; these images were exposed as forgeries in Edwards Park, "The
greatest aerial warfare photos go down in flames,"
Smithsonian, 15, no. 10 (January 1985),
102-110. The Society of British Aerospace Companies' airshow at Radlett,
Hertfordshire, in 1946-the predecessor to the Farnborough Air Show-is
represented by 38 photographs; the quality of the images suggests that
they were taken by an amateur. The collection also contains several
photographs from World Congress of Flight, Las Vegas, NV, April 1959,
including an aerial view of Nellis Air Force Base, and images of a 1910
Bleriot monoplane, a World War I Sopwith F1 Camel, and a 1918 German
Pfalz D12.

Approximately two thirds of the materials in this subseries are
photographs of aircraft, primarily of U.S., French, and German
manufacture, 1899-1956; the remaining third consists of postcards
published circa 1930 of historic aircraft and models in the Science
Museum, London. The earliest photographs, dated October 1899, are of the
engine built by Stephen M. Balzer for Samuel P. Langley's unsuccessful
airplane. The bulk of the photographs relate to aircraft of U.S.
manufacture, in particular those built by Consolidated Aircraft (from
1943, Consolidated Vultee, popularly known as Convair), San Diego, CA,
between 1923 and 1956. The photographs include pages from a comb-bound
publication picturing aircraft built by the company between 1923 and
1945; two large-scale photographs of the PBY-5 flying off the Southern
California coast, signed by Otto Menge, official photographer of the
company; a large-scale photograph of the XP-81 mixed-engine fighter
flying over the Southern California desert; photographs of the XC-99
transport under construction, circa 1947; photographs of the first
official view of the XB-46, January 1947; and five photographs of the
XF2Y Sea Dart jet fighter, 1956. Other aircraft of U.S. manufacture
include the Solar Aircraft Co. Solar MS-1, 1930; the Goodyear rigid
airship USS Akron, 1931, and the airships Columbia and Mayflower; the
Granville Brothers Gee Bee Super Sportster, R1/R2 Longtail, 1933; and a
small number of military aircraft built by Lockheed, circa 1945.
Aircraft of French manufacture include the Breguet 763, 1951; and the
S.N.C.A.S.O. SO-1221 Djinn helicopter, SO-6021 Espadron, and SO-4050
Vautour and SO-9000 Trident jet fighters. Aircraft of German manufacture
include the Dornier Do X flying boat, 1930 (a series of postcards,
several signed by Capt. Friedrich Christiansen and Harvey Brewton, the
Curtiss representative), and the Zeppelin airship LZ127 "Graf Zeppelin".
Materials relating to the latter include a photograph of a certificate
signed by the passengers on the first voyage of the LZ127 to South
America, May 1930, and a souvenir "Bord-Album,", containing photographs
of the crew for the voyage, the passenger accommodations on board the
airship, and sights of interest along the route. Among the models of
historic aircraft in the Science Museum, London, pictured in the
postcards are Henson and Stringfellow's flying machine, built in
1844-45, from Henson's 1842 design; Stringfellow's 1848 model airplane;
Sir Hiram Maxim's 1894 flying machine; Josée Weiss's 1905 glider;
biplanes, 1908-1921, by Voisin, Farman, Avro, Bristol, De Havilland,
Fairey, Handley Page, and Vickers-Vimy; the British airship R 34; the
"Moth" light airplane; and the Supermarine-Napier Seaplane S.5. Original
aircraft pictured in the postcards include the Vickers-Vimy Rolls-Royce
twin-engine biplane in which Alcock and Brown made the first direct
trans-Atlantic flight in 1919, and the Supermarine Rollys-Royce Seaplane
S.6 that won the Schneider Trophy Contest for Great Britain in September
1929.

London: Science Museum, n.d. Postcard No. 99. The registration number
"G-EBNT" was issued to a Gloster G.17 Gamecock I (Gloucestershire
Aircraft Co Ltd) on March 17, 1926; the registration was cancelled
on April 27, 1927.

The photographs include the American Airlines Convair flagship "Boston";
an American overseas Airlines Boeing 377 Stratocruiser at Shannon
Airport, Ireland, before 1950 (when the airline was acquired by Pan
American Airways; the airplane, renamed "Clipper of the Skies", was lost
over the Pacific en-route from San Francisco to Honolulu on November 9,
1957); the introduction of the Convair 880 to the Delta Airlines fleet
in 1960; and a Flying Tiger Line crew unloading fresh cut flowers. The
collection also includes a packet of eight photographs produced by
Deruluft (Deutsch-Russische Luftverkehrgesellschaft), which from 1922 to
1937 ran an air service between Berlin and Moscow, via Königsberg, East
Prussia (now Kaliningrad), and the Baltic states; the airline utilized
Dornier-Merkur aircraft between Berlin and Königsberg, and Junkers G-24
aircraft between Königsberg and Moscow.

American Overseas Airlines was acquired by Pan American Airways and
the airplane (re)named clipper "Romance of the Skies" in 1950; it
was lost over the Pacific en-route from San Francisco to Honolulu on
November 9, 1957.

This series comprises printed materials, including bibliographies, journal
articles, newspaper clippings, event programs, conference agenda and
reports, manuscripts, telegrams, letters, press kits, and guides, relating
to aviation. The bulk of the series consists of materials relating to
individual people, primarily pioneer aviators, including, in particular,
Amelia Earhart and Charles A. Lindbergh, as well as Juan de la Cierva, Igor
Sikorsky, and Charles E. Taylor. The series also includes original materials
on historic air meets, air shows, and flights, including the 1910 Los
Angeles Aviation Meet, and, in particular, the 1931 transpacific flight by
Cecil Allen and Donald Moyle. Materials on museums and exhibitions include
the 1932 illustrated handbook of the National Aircraft Collection, the
predecessor of the National Air and Space Museum, and the brochure for the
official opening of the American Hall of Aviation History at Northrop
University in 1976. Other materials include the program from the
Aeronautical Society's first annual banquet in 1911; a 1919 application form
for the Raymond Orteig Prize, administered by the Aero Club of America;
papers relating to the Bakersfield, Glendale, Los Angeles, San Diego, and
Upland (California) airports; and the Portal of the Folded Wings, Valhalla
Memorial Park, Burbank.

Box 10, Folder 1

Subseries 3.1:
Bibliographies.1979.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Arrangement note

Ordered chronologically.

Scope and Contents note

This subseries consists of two works, both compiled in 1979, relating to
women in aviation.

Box 10, Folder 1, Item 1

Camilla Hutson.
Bibliography of Women
in Aeronautics
. Compiled from the Readers' Guide to
Periodical Literature, 1900 through 1978.
1979.

Box 10, Folder 1, Item 2

Sandie Clary.
Women in Aviation
Library. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Collection of the San
Diego NinetyNines
.
November 2, 1979.

Box 10, Folder 2

Subseries 3.2:
Aviation History.1931-1932, 1983.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Arrangement note

Ordered chronologically.

Scope and Contents note

This subseries consists of materials relating primarily to British
military aviation prior to 1931, and to British commercial and civil
aviation in the period immediately following World War I.

Box 10, Folder 2, Item 1

H. A. Jones. A Hundred Years of Service Aviation.
Journal of the Royal United Service
Institution
, p. 311-323.
1931.

Box 10, Folder 2, Item 2

The Master of Sempill. Commercial and civil aviation;
post-war progress and possibilities of the future.
United Empire, p. 195-205.
1932.

This subseries consists of materials relating to individual people. The
majority of the individuals are pioneer aviators, and the materials
consist largely of journal articles and newspaper clippings, including
obituaries, dating from 1916 to 2000, with the bulk dating from 1950 to
1980. The files relating to Amelia Earhart and Charles A. Lindbergh are
particularly extensive. Almost all the Earhart material is the gift of
Earhart historian Shirley Dobson Gilroy. Pictorial materials for other
individuals include a 1929 Associated Press photograph of Pancho Barnes
and her pet dog prior to the Women's Air Derby, and a 1937 photograph of
Midge Sherwood. Biographical materials include the reminiscences of
Frank Samuel Lahm, 1846-1931, and a 1953 typescript copy of a 1948
account by Charles E. Taylor, "My Story of the Wright Brothers"; this
typescript was at one time in the looseleaf binder of transcripts of
accounts of early aviation history in the Walter R. Brookins Aviation
Collection, cataloged as Aviation Folio TL508.B791. Other materials
include a notarized 1957 verification of a 1914
Beloit Daily News account of aerial performances by Lincoln
Beachey and Barney Oldfield; letters dated 1957 from Jesse Cyril
Brabazon to Dr. Carruthers, and the first ten pages of a typescript of
Brabazon's "1911-1916. Aviation in its Infancy or The Early Days of
Pioneer Aviation"; a small Syd Chaplin Aircraft Corp. handbill for the
Curtiss "Oriole", with a pencil annotation that it was dropped from an
airplane on "9/8/[19]19"; a 1925 article by, and a 1936 memorial
biography of, autogiro pioneer Juan de la Cierva; a 1953 speech by
George Noville at the Valley Hunt Club, celebrating the 25th anniversary
of the Institute of Aeronautical History; an illustrated brochure for an
exhibition on the life and work of Igor Sikorsky; brochures, 1983 and
1987, of the International Forest of Friendship, Atchison, Kansas, with
which pioneer aviator Fay Gillis Wells was associated in her later
years; and a 1916 brochure for the Wright Flying School.

Box 12, Folder 1

Andree, Salomon August.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 3

Angel, Jimmie.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 4

Barnes, Florence Lowe ("Pancho").

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 5

Beachey, Lincoln.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 6

Beghin, Jean-Luc.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 7

Brabazon, Jesse Cyril.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 8

Brancker, Sefton.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 9

Caplan, Natalie ("Nikki").

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 10

Chaplin, Syd.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 11

Clarke, Frank.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 12

Cochran, Jacqueline.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 13

Critchell, Iris.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 12, Folder 2

Curtiss, Glenn H.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 14

De la Cierva, Juan.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 15

Doolittle, James H.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 16

Douglas, Donald Wills.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 12, Folder 3

Earhart, Amelia.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 17

Emeyriat, Carolyn, and Sylvia Rickett.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 18

Evitt, Ardeth.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 12, Folder 4

Granger, Clema M.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 19

Hackney, Lyle Raymond.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 12, Folder 5

Hatfield, David Daniel.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 20

Hawks, Charles.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 12, Folder 6

Hawks, Frank M.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 21

Hoxsey, Arch.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 22

Hubbell, Charles H.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 23

Lahm, Frank Samuel.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 24

Langley, Samuel.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 25

Lindbergh, Charles A.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 26

Marvingt, Marie.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 27

Noville, George.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 28

Ovington, Earle.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 12, Folder 7

Quimby, Harriet.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 29

Renstrom, Arthur G.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 30

Rodgers, Calbraith Perry.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 31

Sherwood, Midge.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 32

Sikorsky, Igor.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 33

Smith, Charles Kingsford.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 34

Smith, Elinor.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 35

Snook, Neta.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 12, Folder 8

Taylor, Charles E.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 36

Turner, Roscoe.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 37

Wells, Fay Gillis.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 38

Wild, Horace B.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 10, Folder 39

Wright, Orville and Wilbur.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 1-8, Box 12, Folder 9-11

Subseries 3.4:
Air Meets, Air Shows, and Historic Flights.1910-1958.

Physical Description:
11 folders.

Arrangement note

Ordered chronologically.

Scope and Contents note

This subseries comprises materials relating to air meets, air shows, and
historic flights between 1910 and 1958. Materials for the Los Angeles
Aviation Meet, held at Dominguez Hills in January 1910, include printed
official programs, an entry ticket stub, and a sheet of paper signed by
many of the pioneer aviators in attendance. The materials also include
extensive original records of the 1931 transpacific flight by Cecil
Allen and Donald Moyle, including portions of the flight log, telegrams,
and the manuscript of Allen's account of the flight. A transcript of
Allen's manuscript was prepared by David Kuhner, librarian at Sprague
Library, for use by Carl M. Cleveland in his planned book on Pacific
flights. The materials also include an illustrated compte rendu of the
1921 Salon de l'aéronautique, two United States Air Force press kits,
including photographs, prepared for the 22nd Salon international de
l'aéronautique in 1957, and a press kit for the 19th Society of British
Aircraft Constructors Flying Display and Exhibition at Farnborough in
1958.

The materials in this subseries consist primarily of brochures and short
descriptive guides. Other materials include an article by Robin Higham,
"Aeronautical History-Some Offbeat British Archives," originally
published in the January 1963 issue of
American
Archivist
; the brochure for the official opening of the
American Hall of Aviation History at Northrop University in 1976; and
the 1932 illustrated
Handbook of the National
Aircraft Collection Exhibited in the United States National Museum
under the Direction of the Smithsonian Institution
, the
predecessor of the National Air and Space Museum.

Box 11, Folder 9

General.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 10

Air Force Museum.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 11

Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 12

American Hall of Aviation History.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 13

Aviation Hall of Fame.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 14

National Air and Space Museum [Smithsonian
Institution].

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 15

National Technical Museum, Prague.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 16

Royal United Service Institution Museum, London.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 17

State Street Trust Company, Boston, MA.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 18-19

Subseries 3.6:
Educational Institutions.Circa 1945-1949.

Physical Description:
2 folders.

Arrangement note

Ordered alphabetically.

Scope and Contents note

This subseries consists of a 1945/46 illustrated information brochure,
information for veterans, and list of courses offered in 1946, for
Northrop Institute; and an information brochure, circa 1949, on the
aviation department of Pasadena City College, Pasadena (CA).

Box 11, Folder 18

Northrop Aeronautical Institute.1945/46.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 19

Pasadena City College, Aviation Department.Circa 1949.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 12, Folder 12-13, Box 11, Folder 20-21

Subseries 3.7:
Societies and Associations.1911-1990.

Physical Description:
4 folders.

Arrangement note

Ordered alphabetically.

Scope and Contents note

This subseries includes a 1919 application form for the Raymond Orteig
Prize, administered by the Aero Club of America; the program from the
Aeronautical Society's first annual banquet in 1911; and minutes for the
Association technique maritime et aeronautique, 1953, 1955, and 1957

This subseries includes a program for the Air Policy Conference held at
Los Angeles in April 1948.

Box 11, Folder 22

Air Policy Conference, Los Angeles, CA. Program.April 13-15, 1948.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 23

19e Salon de l'aviation.1951.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 24-25, Box 12, Folder 14-16

Subseries 3.9:
Airports.Circa 1930-2002.

Physical Description:
5 folders.

Arrangement note

Ordered alphabetically by location.

Scope and Contents note

This subseries includes a 1984 newspaper article on the Glendale (CA) Air
Terminal; 1935 rules, regulations, and information on the Kern County
(CA) airport in Bakersfield; brochures and newspaper articles,
1953-1984, on the history of Los Angeles International Airport; an
historical information sheet, circa 1930, on Lindbergh Field, San Diego;
and newspaper articles, 1978-2002, on Cable Airport and the Cable Family
of Upland (CA).

Box 12, Folder 14

Glendale (CA) Air Terminal.1984.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 24

Kern County (CA) Airport.1935.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 12, Folder 15

Los Angeles International Airport.1953-1983.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 25

San Diego (CA), Lindbergh Field Municipal
Airport.
Circa 1930.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 12, Folder 16

Cable Airport (Upland, CA).1978-2002.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Box 11, Folder 26-29, Box 42, Folder 1

Subseries 3.10:
Geographic.

Physical Description:
5 folders.

Arrangement note

Ordered alphabetically.

Scope and Contents note

This subseries includes papers relating to the Portal of the Folded
Wings, Valhalla Memorial Park, Burbank (CA), in particular, orders of
service, 1956-1958, a 1975 photograph, and materials concerning the 1996
rededication; and a journal article and newspaper article concerning
early aviation in Santa Barbara (CA).

Several individual aircraft are especially well documented in the materials.
The series contains complete blueprints (1915-1918) for the Curtiss JN4D; a
June 1936 range study of the Lockheed Electra bimotor airplane (the model
used by Amelia Earhart on her last flight); a technical data manual for
Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation airliner; and
plans for a model of Northrop Aircraft's 1945 P-61 "Black Widow" night
fighter; as well as a lavish brochure on the De Havilland Comet jet
airliner; extensive press releases on the Folland "Gnat"; a press kit on the
Saunders-Roe P.531 helicopter; and sales bulletins for the Sikorsky S-51
helicopter.

While the majority of corporations represented manufactured aircraft,
several, such as Aerojet Engineering, Hispano Suiza, Rolls Royce,
S.N.E.C.M.A. [Société nationale d'étude et de construction de moteurs
d'aviation], and Société des moteurs Salmson, were concerned primarily or
exclusively with manufacturing motors. In addition, Dayton Engineering
Laboratories Co. [DELCO] manufactured batteries used in aircraft engine
ignition, and Curtiss-Wright manufactured flight simulators. The Union
syndicale des industries aéronautiques françaises, a trade group, in 1957
produced an information card in the form of a slide-rool for identifying
French military aircraft.

While the materials emphasize contemporary production, those produced by
Hawker-Siddeley, Northrop, and Hydravions Schreck also include many
photographs of historic aircraft. In addition, DELCO's
Aviation ignition; a description of the DELCO generator
battery as applied to modern aviation engines
(1919); the
promotional books produced by Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro (circa 1930) and
Hydravions Schreck (1929); and the investment prospectus issued by
Romaircraft (1929) are examples of exceptional quality in design and
production.

This series comprises materials relating to published books, as well as
pamphlets, periodicals, conference papers, and typescript reports and
coursework relating to general aviation topics, in particular, science and
engineering. The book materials include illustration blocks and color plates
to Gaston Tissandier,
Histoire des ballons et des
aéronauts celébres
(1887). The pamphlets include several printed
in pocket book format for use by aviators "in the field". The periodicals
include in-house publications by airplane manufacturers and commercial
airlines, as well as by other businesses that employed airplanes in the
course of their operations.

This subseries consists of unbound issues of periodicals relating to
aeronautics and aviation, including in-house publications by airplane
manufacturers and commercial airlines. Most titles are represented by
only one or two issues. The items include bulletin 11 (1932) of
The Early Birds; two issues from 1940 of
Senza cozzar di rocco, the in-house
publication of the Italian Caproni aviation company, both inscribed to
Dr. Carruthers by Gianni Caproni Conte di Taliedo; and incomplete runs
(including incomplete issues) of
Southern
California Business
(1928-1929) and
Standard Oil Bulletin (1927-1930).

This subseries consists of nine items of a miscellaneous nature. The
earliest is an 1895 Congressional report on the practicality of
commercial aviation. Seven items, published in the 1930's and 1940's,
were printed in pocket book format, for use by aviators "in the field".
They cover such topics as military insignia, parachutes, weather,
thoughts and prayers for service men on active duty, and
Our Red Army ally. The final item is a small
religious tract on birds in the Bible.

This subseries consists of materials of a scientific or technical nature
relating to aviation. These include a 1904 article by Albert Francis
Zahm on atmospheric friction on even surfaces; two published papers,
1925 and 1934, by Alfred Hubert Roy Fedden on aero-cooled engines; and a
1934 U.S. Army Air Corps handbook on aerodynamic formulae. Materials
that appear to have been prepared for use in an educational setting
include a typescript course on stability and control of flight, circa
1940, by H. G. Mazurkiewicz; Weems System of Navigation course on
celestial navigation, 1941; and a binder marked "Haskins", containing
printed, typed, and handwritten documents and reports on supercharging
engines, and other engineering subjects, dated 1930-1945, and
originating at Purdue University. The subseries also includes Air
Service Tactical School, Langley, VA, combat orders for 1925-1926, and a
1943 report to the Civil Aeronautics Board on air pick-up service.

Fedden, A. H. R. Radial aircooled aero engines, a paper
read before the International Air Congress at Brussels, 1925;
the supercharging of aero and motor vehicle engines, a paper
read before the Institution of Automobile Engineers, February
1927.
1925, February 1927.

Three-ring binder, marked "Haskins" on cover, containing printed,
typed, and handwritten technical reports on supercharging of engines
and other engineering subjects. Dates of the printed materials range
from 1930 to 1945. Some printed materials stamped Purdue University,
and some handwritten notes on forms approved for use by Purdue
University.

Box 18, Folder 3

Kidd, J. S.; Shelly, Maynard W.; Jeantheau, Gabriel; Fitts,
Paul M.
The effect of enroute flow control on
terminal system performance; a study in human engineering
aspects of radar air traffic control
.
April 1958.

All 20th-century clippings-with the exception of oversize materials-have been
preservation photocopied; the originals have been placed in acid-free,
buffered envelopes, in the same folders as the preservation photocopies.

Scope and Contents note

This series is ordered as follows: (1) 1844 through 1902, (2) circa
1920-1983, and (3) scrapbook, 1947-1948.

The first group was given to Claremont Men's College by A. N. Kemp (possibly
Alexander Nesbitt Kemp [1879-1955], former president of Pacific Mutual Life
Insurance Co and wartime president of American Airlines) through his
grandson, Sandy Kemp-Clark. The materials date from the years 1844-1847,
1872, 1879-1884, and 1898-1902, and are arranged chronologically. The
majority of clippings are taken from the
Illustrated
London News
, with one from
The
Graphic
(1872), two from
Black and
White
(1898, 1899), and two from unidentified sources (1882,
circa 1902). The clippings relate exclusively to ballooning, and cover such
subjects as a copper balloon at Paris (1844); ascents by British aeronauts
James Hampton (1844) and Charles Green (1847); Dupuy de Lôme's balloon
(1872); military ballooning (1873); balloon making (1874); the Brighton
Review and the
Illustrated London News
balloon (1883); a pictorial commemoration of a centenary of ballooning
(1884); Renard's and Krebs' electrically-steered balloon (1884); "From the
Thames to the Seine by Balloon" (1898); Andree's Arctic expedition (1899);
and Santos Dumont and his balloon at Monaco (1902).

The newspaper clippings in the second group fall into two time periods,
1928-1943, and [1968] 1974-1983. The clippings are arranged chronologically,
with a few undated items at the beginning of each period. Clippings for the
first period cover such subjects as Harriet Quimby and Ruth Law (undated);
airlines operating in California (1928); the Burwash Aerial Expedition to
the Arctic and the discovery of the remains of the Andree expedition (1930);
the autogiro (1930, 1931); Mrs. Keith-Miller (1930); the destruction of the
British airship R-101 (1930); the Schneider Trophy Race (1931); new
developments in airplanes (1933, 1936); Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith (1934);
and the introduction of the Douglas DC-4 (1937). Oversize materials for the
same period cover such subjects as aviation pioneer John Montgomery (1930,
1968); instrument ("blind") flight (1933); Amelia Earhart (1937); and the
introduction of the Lockheed Constellation (1943). Clippings for the period
1974-1983 relate primarily to aviation in Southern California, and cover
such subjects as reunions and deaths of pioneer aviators; Howard Hughes'
"Spruce Goose" (1975, 1983); the Continental Airlines DC-10 (1975,
oversize); Santa Paula Airport (1976, 1978); and the 50th anniversary of
Charles A. Lindbergh's transatlantic flight and the 1977 commemorative tour
(1977).

Box 20, Folder 1

6.1.
1844-1902.

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Custodial History note

Gift to Claremont Men's College by A. N. Kemp through his grandson, Sandy
Kemp-Clark.

Box 20, Folder 1, Item 3

Illustrated London News, vol. 4, no.
100, p. 193-194.
March 30, 1844.

Box 20, Folder 1, Item 4

Illustrated London News, p.
127-128.
August 24, 1844.

Box 20, Folder 1, Item 5

Illustrated London News, p.
29-30.
July 10, 1847.

Box 20, Folder 1, Item 1

Clipping,
Illustrated London
News
, "Loss of a French Aeronaut".
[October 9, 1847.]

Preservation note: Many maps prepared by the
Aeronautics Branch were updated by gluing revisions onto the earlier
rendition, creating a "composite" map. As the glue has become unstable, all
composite maps have been replaced for normal research use by preservation
copies, and the originals removed to boxes 25 and 26.

Arrangement note

Arranged alphabetically by state and name of airport or airfield.

Custodial History note

The maps were discovered in the basement of Mabel Shaw Bridges Auditorium in
May 1962, and may not have been collected by Dr. Carruthers.

Scope and Contents note

With a single exception, this series consists of draft maps prepared by the
Aeronautics Branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce for publication in its
List of airports and landing fields,
Aeronautics bulletin, no. 5 (Washington, DC: Government Printing office,
1928-1931) and
Descriptions of airports and landing
fields in the United States
, Airway bulletin, no. 2 (Washington,
DC: Government Printing Office, 1931ff). The maps comprise two series: those
prepared prior to 1927 are drawn on 11 x 7 inch heavy paper stock, those
prepared after 1927 on heavy card stock of the same size. Each sheet
contains two images, the upper a map of the region around the airport, the
lower a map of the airport or air field itself. The sheets are marked in
pencil with instructions to the printer on resizing the images (those
prepared before 1927 were to be 4 1/2 inches high, those after 1927 3 inches
wide). Maps prepared after 1927 have one or more Department of Commerce
stamps on the back, containing a requisition number and a date, presumably
when the map was retrieved from a central file for review or revision; many
of these maps are also annotated in pencil, "approval of engraver's proof
waived". The maps were found arranged alphabetically by state; this order
has been retained. States represented by the largest number of maps are, in
descending order: California (70 items), Ohio (37 items), Georgia (22
items), Arizona and Michigan (20 items each), New York and Texas (19 items
each), and New Mexico (16 items).

The single map in the series that does not originate with the Bureau of
Aviation is a Locher-Hall map of airline routes and great circle distances
around the world, based on Los Angeles area, dated 1944.